Sergio Garavini

Sergio Garavini (18 May 1926-7 September 2001) was an Italian communist politician and trade unionist who co-founded the Communist Refoundation Party.

Biography
Sergio Garavini was born in Turin, Italy on 18 May 1926, and he entered the Italian Communist Party and the CGIL labor union at a very young age. He became the CGIL regional secretary, secretary of FIOM (its metallurgical workers' confederation), and secretary of CGIL. Garavini was often a mediator between the pro-strike Fausto Bertinotti and the pro-compromise Sergio Cofferati, usually favoring strikes. Garavini supported the automatic recovery of salaries against inflation, which was introduced by the CGIL in 1975. In June 1987, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In 1991, he cofounded the Communist Refoundation Party rather than join the Democratic Party of the Left, serving as national secretary until 1993, with Bertinotti succeeding him. Garavini formed his own party, the Movement of Unitarian Communists, in 1995, and it merged into the Democrats of the Left in 1998. He died in 2001.